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...will be spent this year on farm price supports, five tunes the outlays of fiscal 1981. Says Agriculture Secretary John Block: "The costs that we are looking at today really are unacceptable." In preparation for redrafting the current farm bill, which expires in 1985, Block last week convened a two-day, closed-door "summit" of farm and agricultural business leaders to thrash out long-range methods for cutting costs and surpluses and aiding farmers. High on the agenda: the nation's sinking share of farm export trade, resulting from a strong dollar, world recession and stiffer competition from overseas...
...point, Arafat seemed ready to offer an amnesty to the leaders of the revolt. There was no such talk as the chairman led a two-day meeting of the Fatah central committee in the Bekaa Valley. Arafat is now paying the price of the P.L.O.'s defeat last year in Lebanon and of his subsequent efforts toward compromise. If he should lose the present power struggle, the P.L.O. could easily split into two or more groups, with Arafat leading the more moderate elements and the Syrians dominating the more radical wing...
...Glee Club celebrated its 125th anniversary with an elaborate two-day program of concerts, banquets and speeches, highlighted by a special composition in the group's honor by composer comedian Peter Schickcle (a.k.a. PDQ Bach) Among the club's distinguished alums are Leonard Bernstein '39, and Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun...
Harvard African Students Association--Defunct for two years, HASA resurfaced this spring to sponsor study groups and cultural events about Africa. The group also look a political turn when it organized a two-day teach in about South African divestiture...
...Ronald Reagan, the occasion was a "homecoming." To others, it looked like an exploratory mission on the 1984 presidential campaign trail. Either way, the President was clearly in his political element last week, as he escaped the legislative infighting of Washington for a two-day foray into the Sunbelt...